Purchasing & Promotions

If you are an educator or researcher you may be eligible for special pricing, upgrades and service. Sun offers promotional programs for schools, non-profit research institutions, and museums. Promotional pricing is US List price. Similar discounts may be offered in your geography; customers outside the US should contact their local Sun Sales office.

The following promotions and financing programs are currently available:

Hardware Promotional Programs
Promotion Name	Promotion Description
Sun Education Essentials	Deep discounts on featured Sun systems and storage - desktops and workstations, servers (X64 and SPARC), storage arrays.
Academic Excellence Grant Program	Available to eligible organizations who have developed creative projects that address Sun's investment priorities, and create partnerships for success.
U.S. Education Essentials Matching Grant Program	The 2008 US Education Essentials Matching Grant Program offers special promotional pricing for Education customers on a wide range of configurations for hardware and storage products.
EMEA (Europe,Middle East,Africa ) Matching Grant Program	Break the Barriers with Matching Grants for Education!
Latin America Matching Grant	Latin America Matching Grant runs through May 31, 2008.

Upgrades and Trade Ins

Sun offers special programs for education customers to upgrade their existing systems to the latest technologies, often making significant cost of ownership savings. Sun will also buy back your aging DEC, HP, Digital, SGI, PC, or other computer, when traded-in for a new Sun system.

Financing

The Education and Research Community is eligible to participate in the favorable financing and leasing terms offered to Sun customers.